Friday 12 August 2022 01:16 PM Boris Johnson admits cost of living help is NOT enough - but vows new PM will ... trends now
Boris Johnson today admitted the current level of support for struggling families during the cost-of-living crisis was not enough - but the Prime Minister promised his successor would provide 'extra cash'.
Energy bills for typical households are forecast to surge to an eye-watering £5,000 a year next April.
It has put the Government under pressure to do more to help hard-pressed Britons be able to afford to heat their homes.
Mr Johnson has come under attack for refusing to announce immediate measures while the contest to elect his successor continues.
Downing Street has insisted the outgoing PM's current caretaker role prevents him from making 'significant' fiscal decisions.
Meanwhile, the Tory leadership battle - between Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak - has seen increasingly bitter clashes over how each candidate would respond to the deepening crisis.
But Mr Johnson today suggested - whoever succeeds him - that more help for families would be forthcoming.
Boris Johnson has come under attack for refusing to announce immediate measures while the contest to elect his successor continues
The outgoing PM, who visited an Airbus plant in north Wales, today insisted that more help would be provided for struggling households
Asked if he believed the current package of Government support was enough, he said: 'No, because what I’m saying what we’re doing in addition is trying to make sure that by October, by January, there is further support.
'And what the Government will be doing, whoever is the prime minister, is making sure there is extra cash to help people.
'I think it is crucial to understand that, first of all, we realised for a long time that things were going to be tough and that’s why we put in place a lot of measures already.
'The money has started to come through. I think it is very important for people to understand, most people have not yet received the help the Government has already allocated.
'So over the course of the next couple of months you will see about eight million households get another £326, you will see everybody in October get help with the energy support scheme.'
The PM appeared to rule out working with Ms Truss and Mr Sunak on devising fresh measures to tackle the cost-of-living squeeze.
But he insisted there would be further help in the New Year.
'The price of energy we’re going to bring down by investment in
